DrayTek Vigor 2925n-Plus Dual-WAN Dual-Band Router

The DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus is a triple-WAN Wireless-N Broadband Router that features simultaneous dual-band 802.11n WiFi up to 600Mbps, load balancing, a high performance firewall, VPN, content filtering* and 3G/4G failover. This DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus also features a hugely flexible VLAN system. In its simplest form, each of the routers Five (5) Gigabit LAN ports can be isolated from each other, for example to feed different companies or departments but keeping their local traffic completely separated.

Robust & Comprehensive Firewall
Security is always taken seriously with DrayTek routers. The firewall protects against attacks including DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, IP-based attacks and access by unauthorised remote systems. Ethernet and VPN are also protected by various protection systems.

WAN Load Balancing and Backup
The DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus features WAN connectivity via its two WAN Ethernet ports and two USB ports for connection of a compatible 3G or 4G modem. The ethernet ports can connect to DSL modems (e.g. Vigor 120), a cable modem or any other Ethernet-based Internet feed. The multiple WAN interfaces can be used either for WAN-Backup or load balancing. Load-balancing or failover supports IPv4 only currently (not IPv6).

VPN - Linking remote offices, HQ, teleworkers and mobile staff
A feature central to this DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus router is the VPN (Virtual Private Networking) features. A VPN enables you to link two remote offices, branch offices back to HQ or home-based/mobile teleworkers back to your office. Once connected, they have access to your office/remote resources through a secure encrypted tunnel allowing remote desktop, file sharing and seamless access to other resources and devices.

Web Content Filtering
The content control features of the DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus allows you to set restrictions on web site access, blocking download of certain file or data types, blocking specific web sites with whitelists or blacklists, blocking IM/P2P applications or other potentially harmful or wasteful content. Restrictions can be per user, per PC or univeral.

Wireless Security
The DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus provides several independent levels of security including encryption (up to WPA2), authentication (802.11x) and methods such as MAC address locking and DHCP fixing to restrict access to authorised users only. The Web interface lets you see how many and which clients are currently connected as well as their current bandwidth usage. An 'instant' block lets you disconnect a wireless user temporarily in case of query. The Wireless VLAN facility allows you to isolate wireless clients from each other or from the 'wired' LAN.

Wireless LAN WDS Facility
DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus supports WDS (Wireless Distribution System) which enables you to use the wireless capability to bridge to another network, within wireless range. You need an additional compatible wireless router for this of course.

IPv6 - Next Generation Internet Routing
The DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus supports IPv6 - the successor to the current IPv4 addressing system that has been used since the Internet was first created. IPv4 address space is full up and IPv6 allows for much more efficient routing and a larger address space. IPv6 is supported both from your own ISP, but if your ISP does not (yet) support IPv6, the DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus also supports IPv6 broker/tunnel services to provide IPv6 accss using either TSPC or AICCU via 3rd party IPv6 providers. To learn all about IPv6, you can get our detailed guide to IPv6 here.

802.1q Tagged, Wireless & Port Based VLAN
The DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus features a hugely flexible VLAN system. In its simplest form, each of the six Gigabit LAN ports can be isolated from each other, for example to feed different companies or departments but keeping their local traffic completely separated. For more sophisticated scenarios, the DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus includes tagged VLANs (802.1q) whereby data is marked with a VLAN identifier. This identifier can be read by an onward Ethernet switch and directed to specific ports or just passed to the LAN for specific VLAN clients to pick up; priorities can also be applied for LAN-side QoS.

User Management/Authentication
The DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus has built-in user management which allows you to provide internet access to users based on their own unique login (stored in the router, or on an external Radius server). Accounts can be restricted by schedules or maximum usage times but also any other aspect of the firewall or content filtering can be applied on a user-by-user basis. For example, a sales department might not be allowed access to social networking sites except at lunch time, or in a school, teachers and staff have more access permitted than pupils.

3G/4G USB Modem Support & Failover
The DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus has a built-in USB port that provides an alternative connection method for Internet backup by connecting to a compatible USB modem (See current compatible modems) for access to the high speed 3G/4G mobile networks from UK providers such as Vodafone, O2, EE, 3 and T-Mobile. The 3G access method can be used as your primary/only Internet connection, ideal for temporary locations, mobile applications or where broadband access is not available or as backup to your main Broadband line connection. This DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus is not only ideal for homes or offices which don't want to pay fixed line + broadband rental, but also for temporary locations, or those to where fixed lines aren't available

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
The DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus's USB2.0 port can also be used to add storage memory to the unit in the form of a USB memory key (as shown right) or for higher capacity a USB hard drive (normally requires its own power). The DrayTek Vigor 2925n Plus then provides FTP access file uploading/downloading which can be from the local LAN or from anywhere on the Internet - ideal for a simple to deploy file depository. Access can be 'public' or using usernames and passwords, each of which can have their own directories and/or file access rights. As well as FTP, file sharing is available as a Windows 'network drive'. You can also use Windows Explorer to view and access the contents of the USB drive.